yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant Android Development] ronin4740:
It's probably because I don't know enough about the Android operating system and how the file structure is laid out and what files do what to explain my intentions very well.

I guess I was wanting to try just the gpsd file per your original suggestion and wanted to know what the easiest way to restore the files from the GB ROM I'm running (Trigger) so I could then test your 1.5 no-gpsd script and overwrite the gpsd file with the one in the other thread.

...I did try making a CWM 3.0 zip file with all of the files from that other thread and flashing it. The phone worked but the GPS did not. I probably did something wrong with relation to what files go into what folder inside of /system but part of the learning experience for me is to experiment, ask questions and learn from the process...

Anyway, am done rambling. I really do appreciate your script and wouldn't run GB without it at the moment :)
[Vibrant Android Development] strictlyrude27:
The only original file that comes with Trigger is /system/vendor/bin/gpsd (actually, Trigger uses the same gpsd as this fix). So you can delete everything in /data/gps, /etc/init.d/90getgps_lto, and /etc/gps.conf.

I'm about 95% sure those files won't work, because they are dependent on the Samsung framework.

Make sure that you have 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) permissions set on gpsd after it's flashed. Additionally, the group should be "root", although since you're running as root I don't think that makes a difference.

Glad I can help make your CM7 experience a little bit better :)
[Vibrant Android Development] reocej:
Opened up the 1.5 flashables and there seems to be two of every folder and file. Seems a little redundant. Was this intentional?
[Vibrant Android Development] barribow:
Hey man,

Can we use the latest one of these for cm7 build #104? which one do you recommend? with gpsd or without?

Also, should we use this for only cm7 or other cm7 based ROM's like Trigger, etc.

Thanks
[Vibrant Android Development] strictlyrude27:
Do half the files have a ~ at the end? My text editor makes backups on every save and they're hidden from me, so I may have forgotten to delete those from the zip..

They won't do anything though; no harm in them being there.

I would recommend using with gpsd - no-gpsd is really there if you hear about other fixes or if the CM7-bundled gpsd gets better.

This can be used for any CM7-based ROM, and in fact I pulled the gpsd from Trigger.
[Vibrant Android Development] lotherius:
*sigh*.... Installed V1.5 last night on Trigger 08/22. Had locks in less than 10 seconds off of 10 satellites. I disabled GPS, rebooted, then re-enabled GPS, rebooted, and this morning I not only do not get a lock, it doesn't even TRY to access GPS. It acts like it is turned off still - the icon never appears at the top and GPS test never sees a single satellite. It is turned on in both Extra Tweaks AND in the GPS Settings. But nothing. NADA....

EDIT:

Pushed AngryGPS.apk to /system/app and rebooted again, and now I have GPS even with an indoor lock. What exactly does AngryGPS *do*?
[Vibrant Android Development] barribow:
I am having a totally strange problem, you know the notification area should show a satellite icon but it doesn't show anything and my number of satellites is always zero.
[Vibrant Android Development] d_phekt:
This randomly happens to me too. Anyone have any suggestions?
[Vibrant Android Development] mikka06:
Same problem here....
[Vibrant Android Development] strictlyrude27:
gpsd is reaaaally fickle. I'd rather use a newer one from a later nightly, but it seems that they don't have as good of a lock ability as this one. Try another gpsd is your best bet.
[Vibrant Android Development] cire216:
Not sure what happened, but tried this fix, and got stuck on HTC loading screen... had todo a restore.
[Vibrant Android Development] strictlyrude27:
would the fact that this fix is for the Samsung Vibrant have anything to do with it?
[Vibrant Android Development] cire216:
Lol I feel stupid now... haha that's funny
[Vibrant Android Development] cgigate:
People always lies, none of these solutions actually work . It may work temporarily, then GPS would be dead again.
[Vibrant Android Development] cheema:
I tried this method on a bunch of Vibrants that my family members have. Did not make a lick of difference on any one of them. None of them could connect before and they cannot connect now either.
[Vibrant Android Development] strictlyrude27:
To all who are having issues -

Could you please run the following command in adb shell:

ls -lrth /data/gps

This will give me the last time lto2.dat was generated; I'm wondering if there's an issue with my init-script that fails to get the latest satellite information.
[Vibrant Android Development] d33dvb:
What we need is:

More script kiddies

Less porting

Less decompiling

Please write more scripts! Thats what gets us places!

You would be better off trying to get a girl in the dev department at samsung to sleep with you and steal her flash drive.

F'n gay ass samsung devs, probably no girls there either.
[Vibrant Android Development] bobofosho123:
Then you could probably find the token gay dev at samsung to sleep with you, assuming you role that way of course. lmao
[HTC EVO 3D] ZeeMox:
I'd like to apply my development experience to Android and ROMs seem like an interesting place to start. I searched around XDA and found some stuff from 2009 as well as some pretty good WinMo tutorials, but I've failed to find anything recent for Android. Is there a place most of you get started?
[HTC EVO 3D] hockeyfamily737:
If you're looking to take an E3D rom and tweak it to your satisfaction. Freeza is working on this guide, although it's not done....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1198035

If you're looking for a Rom kitchen, this is what I use.....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=633246
[HTC EVO 3D] ZeeMox:
Thanks. I'd never heard of a ROM kitchen before. Kind of just assumed I'd be dealing with source. I think that's probably what I'm looking for.

Edit: I hadn't even noticed that chef forum before, so I now that I browse around it looks pretty awesome. I'm wondering why I didn't come up with any of these posts when searching for terms that are right there in their titles...
[HTC EVO 3D] hockeyfamily737:
No problem. I've never built from source before and wouldn't know where to begin directing you, but hopefully I've given you enough to get your feet wet :)
[HTC EVO 3D] ZeeMox:
Heh, I meant that the kitchen is probably what I'm looking for. If I don't have to mess with source, then all the better. I know enough C++ to get around, and have some proxy Java knowledge from C#, but of C/Java specifically I am not especially learned.
[Acer Iconia A500] Whompa 1:
I am after ahyperterminal like program to run via USB to serial cable. It may exist already or if some one is interested in developing just let me know and we can talk.
[Acer Iconia A500] cliefan:
would also love this.
[Acer Iconia A500] pacificwing:
+1 for this idea.
[Acer Iconia A500] cd85233:
This would be sick! But is the [App] flag appropriate?
[Acer Iconia A500] Whompa 1:
Yeah not to sure about the app flag thing, i am a bit of a noob, so wasnt sure what to put.
[Acer Iconia A500] derpeter:
I got my USB Serial Device working yesterday.

I use screen as terminal emulation. I posted a short howto on http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/19724-serial-terminal-app/page__view__findpost__p__215393

If you get you usb->tty device working with your kernel this should work your device too.
[Acer Iconia A500] dottat:
sounds like an opportunity for someone to make an APK/driver with...
[Acer Iconia A500] nickstewartroc:
Hopefully it wont get flagged to the app section since it is development related, but back on this topic, It would be awesome to be able to do that, I have a few usb -> serial adapters that could be used
[Acer Iconia A500] Whompa 1:
Thanks derpeter. Will give that a go.

Should I change the tag to [DEV]?
[Acer Iconia A500] jackycxh:
It is really good idea.
[Acer Iconia A500] af974:
Yes, change tag to DEV and this thread could stay here but it will should have something related to development , if it will become another useless chat plenty of crap, trolls and flaming posts I will move /close immediately.
[Acer Iconia A500] Whompa 1:
Thanks mate would love for some devs to get on board and throw some idea around.
[Acer Iconia A500] lonnie.mercer:
would love this also to be able to connect to my Cisco devices
[Acer Iconia A500] celsoffraga:
Busybox has an terminal called Microcom. Works quite well...
[Acer Iconia A500] fincan:
Android version of busybox does not support it, at least the one I installed from market doesn't.
[Acer Iconia A500] celsoffraga:
Busybox 1.19 here, Microcom working good... using it to comunicate with an Arduino...
[Acer Iconia A500] fincan:
Thanks a lot. I had 1.18 as 1.19 was marked as unstable. Will upgrade to that.
[Acer Iconia A500] fincan:
Where did you install 1.19? The busybox installer app from the market installs it but it still does not have microcom in it. /system/xbin/busybox microcom gives me a "applet not found" error

Update: Ignore this, apparently the following busybox installer's v1.19 has microcom:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jrummy.busybox.installer

Thanks again.
[Acer Iconia A500] celsoffraga:
It came in the rom I'm using... Lightspeed 1.0.1... By the way, the best one I've used since I bought my A500...
[Acer Iconia A500] fincan:
Does it have usb-serial drivers in it to connect a usb to rs232 converter? I think module name should be something like ftdi_sio.ko
[Acer Iconia A500] celsoffraga:
Unfortunately not for FTDI, but has for the usb<->serial embedded in Arduino UNO (wich I'm currently using) and for Prolific PL2303.

For FTDI I have to load ftdi_sio.ko manually. Got it from [DEV] A500 Kernel Modules, by thor2002ro. Worked perfectly.
[Acer Iconia A500] fincan:
Now that was all I needed, I don't mind manually loading the driver. Thanks a lot again
[Acer Iconia A500] fincan:
Instructions for serial communication ala Minicom, Hyperterminal, etc.

Update Oct/25/2011: Added links to the 3.2 stock kernel modules.

Thanks to celsoffraga and also thor2002ro for the kernel modules, I can confirm that A500 can run a usb/serial (rs232) perfectly fine on the stock 3.1 kernel/rom.

Ingredients: Rooted, A500, kernel modules for your adapter, a terminal emulator, and busybox 1.19

Install busybox 1.19 through this application (the other busybox installer app on the market installs a slightly different version of 1.19 that does not have microcom):

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jrummy.busybox.installer

Download usb2serial package for your kernel from the first post of (you can check your kernel version from Settings - About Tablet):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1058713

Extract that usb2serial zip to somewhere in the tablet (I used /mnt/sdcard/modules/). There should be two files, one for Prolific chipset serial converter, pl2303.ko which is the most common one, the other one for the Fidi chipset, ftdi_sio.ko, which is what I had.

NOTE: if you are using a rooted stock 3.2 ROM, prolific driver is built into the kernel, you don't need any modules. If your usb2serial cable uses FTDI chipset, get them from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1297620

Now open your favorite terminal emulator (Both terminal emulator and connectbot works) and load the module you need, or you can load both:

insmod /mnt/sdcard/modules/ftdi_sio.ko

Now plug your usb/serial converter to the USB port, and type "dmesg" in terminal. You should see something like "FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0" , which means everything is detected fine and attached to the correct device point in linux.

Now comes the serial terminal emulator, which is called "microcom".

In terminal, just type microcom and it should return a short help text. Our device name (TTY) is /dev/ttyUSB0 . So if I want to connect to a rs232 port with 9600 baud rate, the command should be:

microcom -s 9600 /dev/ttyUSB0

Tadaaa!
[Acer Iconia A500] pic.micro23:
Hello celsoffraga, Do those two modules are buildin in the Lightspeed 1.0.1 ROM?

I have a arduino UNO and like to start taking to it.

Thx
[Acer Iconia A500] celsoffraga:
Yes, UNO and PL2303 works out of the box with Lightspeed 1.0.1.

Edit: Also, Lightspeed 1.0.1 already have the Busybox version with Microcom...
[Acer Iconia A500] pic.micro23:
Thanks. Out of curiosity, do you know what driver is being used for the UNO?

Now I know it's build in in lightspeed but I would like to take at look at the source code for that driver. But first I need to know the .so that's is being use for it.

thx
[Acer Iconia A500] celsoffraga:
Sorry... have no idea... maybe you can ask the developer on his rom topic.
[Acer Iconia A500] msoileau:
CTRL+BREAK

There are many serial debug ports out there that require the CTRL+BREAK key sequence to start a debugging menu. Through trial and error, I was able to find that the ScrL key on the Hacker's Keyboard sends the correct sequence (though Ctrl+Brk doesn't?). Anyone have any ideas for sending this sequence with other keyboards? I've had trouble getting some other keys recognized when using Hacker's Keyboard.
[Acer Iconia A500] MountainX:
This worked for me on a GSM Galaxy Nexus. I used the following components, which made it very, very easy:

[ROM][AOSP][4.0.3] Codename Android 1.3.3 [Fully Open Source](02/07/12)

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/16210-romaosp403-codename-android-133-fully-open-source020712/

Codename Kernel 1.4.0 (Upgraded to 3.0.20, enabled CP210x driver for usb serial, and added ksm)

Micro USB Host Mode OTG Cable Flash Drive SD T-Flash Card Adapter FOR Samsung GT-i9100 i9100 Galaxy S II 2 GT-N7000 Galaxy Note

$4.59

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005FUNYSA/ref=oh_o02_s00_i00_details

BusyBox Pro by Stephen (Stericson) - includes microcom

BTEP (it uses above busybox if installed)
[Acer Iconia A500] IcedCube:
Most kernels support most generic serial adapters.

When compiling, I think there's a option that says "USB Serial Adapter support" or something that one must tick so that the compile includes the needed gear.
[Acer Iconia A500] hatefuel19:
There's a thread for this in themes and apps.....check out slick 2 USB in the market

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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmatthews78:
How do I watch movie rentals on my rooted htc g2 device?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awca22:
Hi I would like someone to help me, I bought a Motorola Atrix 1 week ago from ebay, and this atrix was updated by the seller to 4.5.91 with Android 2.3.4.

I unlocked the bootloader all went fine after that I installed CWM everything was great until I wanted to install Cherry Blur.... I flashed it and when I rebooted everything it just stucks on a Infinite Boot Loop...

What should I do I cant flash anything else and dont know how to mount the phone internal storage to flash a new zip.

Please Help
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xenocyde:
Pull Battery if you havnt already hold Volume down and power button

when you go to boot your phone back up. hold until it says fastboot

Use volume down to cycle thur menu then up to select android recovery

Once in recovery go to wipe / factory reset ( WIPE )

Then Wipe Cache

Then Scroll down to Mount

Scroll all the way down to Mount as USB plug your cable in

and it should show you your ext sd card must have one .

Copy a Fruit cake file or Kenneth build of gingerbread or w/e.

Then go back to install it. :)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deziguy420:
sounds like a bad flash...reflash again...if same problem occurs...download the file again and restart the procedure....
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scarpachi:
This happened to me yesterday. For me it was a case of grabbing the wrong CMW file. In my zombie state I somehow grabbed the 2nd newest. Worked fine after that.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Masters2150:
I need help finding out if the following programs are still worth using with improvements from 2.3.3.

Advanced Task Killer

Is this still worth it? I heard 2.3.3 does a much better job of managing memory.

Juice Defender

This program helped me alot, but it seems that it isn't ready for Gingerbread yet, still only in Beta. Is this program still worth it? Or does 2.3.3 already handle things like turning on and off 3g, wifi, etc. on it's own?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androrange:
For me the best is let gingerbread manage the process and battery itself, no need of any app
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kpham:
- Advanced Task Killer:

I heard many experienced members saying that Gingerbread does not need this app, as it manages the device itself quite efficiently. However, I think we still need it for killing can't-stop programs or so...

- You can use the widget "Data traffic" for turning on/off 3G quickly, and widget "Status switch" for managing wifi, battery, bluetooth, etc.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aR_ChRiS:
I have installed the arc switch widgets which does the same job as well.

For bluetooth I think using the bluetooth file transfer widget is better to manage.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] byrds8:
Will our phones print web pages and such over the Bluetooth? My wife does a lot of printing coupons and I figured it would be one more IP to print from if its possible. I know it wont print them via cloud and such. Thanks in advance
[Samsung Infuse 4G] gbrown2036:
Take a look at PrinterShare. This page doesn't mention BT but the app supports it. Try the free, crippled version first to check compatibility.

http://www.printeranywhere.com/mobile.sdf
[Samsung Infuse 4G] byrds8:
I saw that but if I get a new printer Id like to do it over bluetooth.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] kizzerd:
Printers over wifi & Google cloud print are pretty well fail proof. If running ICS ull have the ability to run chrome. Chrome from ur main PC or notebook use chrome, go into settings advanced settings. Click Google cloud print to add ur new wifi printer. It's all self explanatory from there. :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] BurnRubber90:
Well, first of all, i don't live in US, but i'm a BIG fan of Android and really need an upgrade from my old Moto Cliq.

The Inspire is compatible with my local 3g and 4g network,and the price is really good.. but there is something weird that haves me confused.

How does Radio files work here? I saw in some ROMS threads that you need to have "X" radio version so it works ok. I Don't want to flash any Radio file as i don't want to screw up my 3G/4G.

2nd Question: Can you unbrick an Inspire 4g? I Bricked my Cliq once and was really happy i could unbrick it (fhew).

Thanks XDA!

PD: Just 2 general questions... what kind of results you could expect in quadrant? The phone is really smooth for games and UI?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Jake33108:
Flashing a radio isn't any harder than the rest of the rooting process, you'll be able to fix it. I haven't heard of anyone hard-bricking an Inspire, but I've soft-bricked mine, battery pull fixed it. If you have any rom problems you can always go back to stock.

As for quadrant I don't know about stock settings but with my current settings(overclocked to 1.3ghz) I get about 2500-2700 depending on my cpu governor. But just because I haven't gotten a chance to post this yet. This is my BEST quadrant ever. Overclocked to 2.0ghz(unsafe! never go over 1.8) with performance governor. I can't repeat this because now every time I try to set my cpu that high it locks up, but i got a pretty epic score.
[HTC Inspire 4G] BurnRubber90:
wow, awesome. Can't wait to put my hands on this bad boy.

@Quadrant scores : That basically makes my Cliq look like it's from the 80's lol.

Thanks for your quick responses!
[HTC Inspire 4G] oxlong27:
You can hard brick it with a bad radio flash. but if you check md5 sums your good to go. If you get good speed and signal you can stick with the stock radio. You never HAVE to flash a radio unless your unhappy with it. however after flashing roms its good practice to flash the ril files for your radio. different roms come with different rils but NEVER replace your radio. I got quadrant scores of 3600 with my inspire but quadrant should be taken with a grain of salt. Ive had quadrant differ over 800 points from one run to another back to back. dont even bother with quadrant scores go by how it feels under your fingers
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daoliverio:
OK so I have a friend who bought a rooted hero running cyanogen off craigslist. She wants to active it but still keep root and run cyanogen. Will sprint active the phone with just a sense rom on it? I would hate to have to unroot and root again bc the friend lives a while away from me and I won't be able to help her.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PMGRANDS:
Try Flashing a Sense Rom, and then Call the Carrier and see if they could Activate over the phone!

I'm pretty sure they'll let you, because I did it through Sprint!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vidaljs:
I just did this yesterday... have the friend flash NFX rom so the dialer command prompts that they will ask you do will work.... then once the data does work on the phone... I'd suggest backing up that ROM for future calls to the provider and since you're there update the local PRL...

then go ahead and flash Cyanogen but make it a fresh flash instead of going back to the one that came with the phone so it will be your info on the phone now.

good luck
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vinnie8018:
Is there a way to completely disable or remove the screen lock function?

I have no need for a screen lock and the power button is perfectly sufficient.

I have tried

Dial "*#*#7594#*#*" -> Check shutdown. - removes the power menu :(

Apps like NoLock - not totally reliable

I think that services.jar is the place to look. Since so many roms have added extra lock screens it cant be that hard to remove them all.

Any suggestions would be welcome, though a CWM update that kills them off would be much better.

On JVQ atm.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chris_84:
Dont think that is what your looking for but in crysis rom there is an option to disable lockscreen.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rawrbitch22:
is this possible?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hooover:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=718628
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tropicalbrit:
Other Godmode. Not the kernel one. The ext2 one, featured in Synergy.

Not quite sure, I'm not a developer but I would think with some heavy tweaking it could work, writing boot.img I think would be important. PM an AOSP developer, he would definitely have some insight into it and compiling AOSP
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rawrbitch22:
lol i dont know any devs ima newb
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Infliciton:
I'm sure we will see this come eventually
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rawrbitch22:
well i just tried to make a build of cm7 with godmode by turning cm7's system folder into a system.img file and swapping it with synergys system.img file and also flashing cm7's kernal but it wont go past the splash screen i used the mkfs.yaffs2 command in ubuntu to create the image btw
[Nook Color General] kmcmanimen:
Hi,

I really messed up my NC. I tried to update CM7 and it froze on the "Loading..." message. I then tried various different ways to reinstall the software (CM7, stock 1.2, stock 1.0.1) all without success.

Finally with 1.0.1 I can get into the registration process. I tried to reregister the device so that I can update and at least use it in stock for the time being. However, when I reach the final page of the registration there is an error.

I looked in the "Device Info" page and my device says "MISSING" for both serial number and model number. I called B&N and they said my firmware may be corrupted and they are sending out a new NC.

I was wondering if there is anything I can do to reset the Serial and model number. I still have the box so I know what my serial number is but I have no idea how I'd go about resetting it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!